InvestigateTV - Season 3; Episode 16
(InvestigateTV) — This Week on InvestigateTV: Trains are sitting on tracks idling for hours at a time – and neighbors are worried about the health and environmental effects. Joce Sterman digs into lax regulation and loopholes that critics say allow locomotives to spew emissions in neighborhoods across the country. Plus, despite recommendations for babies to fly in car seats, it’s not a requirement. We investigate the reason.
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Railroaded – Idling Trains: Idling trains are a huge problem in communities across the country - with emissions impacting the environment and the health of people who live nearby as trains sit for hours pumping out pollutants. Despite robust calls for modernized regulations to crack down on the problem, rail companies have resisted updates to locomotives. InvestigateTV digs into why local, state and federal agencies can’t regulate idling trains, looks at complaint data documenting the extent of the problem and talks with a couple who has tracked the idling locomotives outside their home every day for more than a year.
Railroaded – Kaptur Anniversary: A 2023 train derailment in east Palestine, Ohio thrust the issue of rail safety back into the national spotlight. Congressional lawmakers immediately introduced legislation designed to protect Americans and hold rail companies accountable. Joce Sterman continues her reporting with the longest serving woman in congress – who says little has changed since the disaster.
Deadly Dilemma: After the incident on the Alaska Airlines flight with part of the plane blowing apart, people have wondered how to keep babies safe. For decades, the NTSB urged parents to buy their infants and toddlers their own seat and strap them into a car seat, rather than hold them as “lap children.” Some experts in aviation, including flight attendants, have asked airlines to ban babies sitting in parents’ laps. In this investigation, we look at how a requirement to force parents to purchase a second seat could affect families’ decisions to drive instead of fly – and what that might mean for total infant deaths in transportation.
Watching Your Wallet – Young Adults and Scams: Fraudsters target people of all ages. But new research by the Better Business Bureau’s Institute for Marketplace Trust examines a significant increase in the dollar amount young adults are losing to scams. In this Watching Your Wallet, Consumer Investigator Caresse Jackman spoke with an expert about the warning signs and what young adults can do to prevent getting scammed.
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